True crime stories & great mysteries
Mystery & True Crime Stories is a website about the most puzzling mysteries of the past, as well as controversial theories. Here you'll find the most puzzling crime mysteries, the greatest mysteries of history, some of the interesting controversial theories and unexplained phenomena. Of course, some of them might be hoaxes, some of them might have a trivial explanation, but it is always a fun to stumble upon a puzzle or mystery that still needs to be solved.
True crime stories
D.B. Cooper
On November 24, 1971, a very unusual crime took place - on board of a passenger plane, an unknown man demanded ransom and two parachutes, and otherwise he will detonate the bomb in his briefcase...
Kidnapping of Lindbergh baby
The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr, son of famous American aviator Charles Lindbergh, was one of the first big trials that gathered massive media coverage. The 20-months-old...
Monster of Florence
One of the most famous serial killer cases in Europe - the unknown assailant attacked the couples in parked cars around the beautiful city of Florence. Between 1968 and 1985 16 people were killed...
Great mysteries
Roanoke colony
The Roanoke colony was one of the first British settlements in the North America. When the ships returned in 1590, the colony was deserted, with the word "Croatoan" carved in the post...
The Somerton Man
In 1948, a corpse of an unidentified man was found on Somerton beach in Adelaide, Australia. The contents of the hidden pocket are puzzling the investigators to this day.
Beast of Gevaudan
Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...
Dyatlov Pass incident
Dyatlov Pass incident involves the mysterious deaths of 9 tourists in the northern Ural Mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened at night and there were no...
Controversial theories
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
On September 1, 1983 Boeing 747 suddenly flew into Soviet Union airspace over Kamtchatka Peninsula. It was Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and soon Soviet fighters were sent to intercept the intruder...
Glenn Miller disappearance
Glenn Miller was one of the most recognizable band leaders in the swing era, his music is still admired today. At the peak of his career, he decided to join the World War 2 effort and...
Smolensk air crash
During a trip to annual ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre (when during the World War II over 20,000 Polish officers, previously kept captive, were killed by NKVD...
UFO sightings
When we talk about UFO, we often forget that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, which not necessarily means that those objects have to be made by humans or aliens - they just...
Unexplained phenomena
High Rock event
In June 1966, four boys went to the top of High Rock (Wysoki Kamien) in Poland, where they wanted to see if the rumours of this place being haunted were truth. What happened to them...
Dyatlov Pass incident
Dyatlov Pass incident involves the mysterious deaths of 9 tourists in the northern Ural Mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened at night and there were no...
Amityville horror house
An average house at the end of the road in Amityville proved to be a crime scene, where the whole DeFeo family was killed. Years later, the new inhabitants of the house had to ask for...
Beast of Gevaudan
Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...
Crime and mystery movies
Ransom 1974
Hijacked airplane lands in one of Scandinavian countries, where the story takes strange twists.
The Reckoning 2002
The travelling acting troupe arrives to a town in which young boy is just being buried and a woman is about to be executed for killing him. But not everything is what it looks like in this story.
The Lady Vanishes 1938
Passengers of a train get stuck in a mountain village due to avalanches that covered the tracks with snow. When they resume their journey, one of the passengers seems to be missing.
Jane Doe 2005
Cathy Davis is a typical housewife taking care of house and family. But sometimes she also has to take care of the criminals.